Chapter 21 Portraits

Lu Yingjiu told those people, "You hold the talisman paper and wait for me on the spot. It's best not to move one step."

Yang Tianle held the talisman paper Lu Yingjiu gave him tightly in his hand and nodded again and again.

Just as Lu Yingjiu was about to find Jingxian, he suddenly stopped.

Seeing that he was not moving, Yang Tianle asked cautiously, "What, what happened? Did something happen?"

"The yin qi has dissipated a lot, but it has not completely disappeared." Lu Yingjiu said, "A ghost here is dead."

"One?" Yang Tianle's face turned pale, "How many ghosts are there?"

"I don't know. Anyway, I have to find Jingxian now." Lu Yingjiu said.

In fact, he didn't think Jingxian would be in danger.

Even the ghost that died just now... may have been done by Jing Xian.

But even if there is a 1 in 10,000 possibility, his inference is wrong, and the consequences are something he is unwilling to face.

Lu Yingjiu finally glanced at Yang Tianle. They held their talismans and stayed where they were. There was no problem.

He pulled a piece of talisman paper, and just walked a few dozen meters to the place where the Yin Qi was fluctuating, when he saw Jing Xian just turning the corner.

Lu Yingjiu stopped: "...Where have you been?"

Jing Xian smiled at him: "I accidentally went wrong."

Lu Yingjiu pursed his lips, looking unhappy, obviously not believing: he was just about to leave Yang Tianle and the others, and ventured to find Jingxian, but Jingxian's old god was wandering back, just like a spring tour, a look It was deliberately "lost".

Seeing this, Jingxian quickly changed the subject: "Have you found the basement?"

"I found it." Lu Yingjiu replied, and he added in a low voice, "Don't run around next time."

Jingxian assured: "Okay, listen to you."

The two returned to the stairs, and Yang Tianle was stunned when he saw them: "This, this is coming back so soon? Either way, let's hurry and hide, aren't there other ghosts?"

The stairs are very narrow, and Yang Tianle let the faceless people put their shoulders on one another and slowly go down.

This is really inefficient. The depth of the basement is about minus 2 floors. With such a short distance, they walked for 5 minutes.

Finally, a cold door appeared in front of them.

The door is five or six meters high and made of bronze.

As soon as Lu YingJiu's hand was raised, the rune paper flew up with the fire, illuminating the entire door.

There is a relief of a hundred ghosts on the facade, which is different from the ghosts walking at night in the traditional art. Every ghost above is tearing each other's faces - the winner holds a bloody skin in his hand, and will lose. The corpse stomped on the soles of his feet, grinning wildly.

Between the crevices of the relief, there are mottled liquid traces, black and red, which are easily reminiscent of blood.

This door just makes my scalp tingle.

Yang Tianle did not dare to approach and said, "What is this?"

Lu Yingjiu didn't care that the door was dirty, and put his hand in the middle of the door, feeling the fluctuations above.

The yin qi was not heavy, but he felt the power of the exorcism rune.

To his surprise, he didn't exert much force, and the door opened silently.

A strong stale smell hit, Yang Tianle took advantage of the firelight to look over, only to see a high place in the darkness, a strange smiling face staring at him!

His scalp was numb, and he didn't even scream, he just fell back and sat on the ground!

Lu Yingjiu was very calm, and reached out to the face in the air——

The position of the face was extremely high, and he put his feet on it and didn't touch it for a while.

Just as he was about to use the talisman paper, a hand stretched out beside him.

Jingxian was tall enough to pull off the face with ease, and handed it to Lu Yingjiu, with "please praise" written all over his face.

He said, "Are you still angry?"

Lu Yingjiu said helplessly: "Why do I feel that you have asked me this question several times. We are not in a relationship, so don't be so careful."

Jingxian: "..."

He was speechless.

Lu Yingjiu took the face.

It's not actually a real face, it's just a drawing on paper, but the colors and details are too realistic, and at first glance, you can't tell the difference between the real and the fake.

The picture shows a middle-aged man with a yellow hard hat and dark skin. There are deep ravines at the end of his eyes and nose. He looks like a worker on the construction site.

The talisman floated further into the depths of the door, only to see different faces in the air.

All kinds of people are vivid on the screen, like some kind of weird museum.

Lu Yingjiu murmured, "...human skin mask."

Jingxian asked, "Is this a drawing of a human skin mask?"

"Yes." Lu Yingjiu said, "On these papers, they are the objects they want to imitate. That is to say, this basement is where the Chen family used to make masks."

Yang Tianle was completely stunned: "What, what? What are you talking about? What human skin mask?"

Lu Yingjiu looked at him and smiled suddenly: "In theory, this basement is safe, you can stay until I find the exit. But..."

Yang Tianle swallowed: "But what?"

"If the Chen family really uses animal skins as masks, then it's safe here. I'm afraid they have really used human skins." Lu Yingjiu said, "It's not my malicious speculation, the sheep ghost is obsessed with human faces, it's very It may have something to do with the human skin mask."

Yang Tianle's back froze: "Then what should we do?"

"You still have to go in, even if you want to see the situation." Lu Yingjiu took out a few more talisman papers, lit them, and made them float in the air, illuminating a large area.

I saw that in the darkness, a picture of a person's face emerged.

Only by the light of the fire did they see clearly that the face painting was actually hanging on an iron shelf.

Lu Yingjiu took the lead and walked in, Jingxian followed closely by his side.

The space behind the door is very large, like a huge production workshop, and an iron shelf is equipped with a large workbench. There are still unfinished human skin paintings on the workbench, several pieces of damaged leather, carving knives, sewing needles and threads, and various dye bottles that have long been dried up. .

Dozens of images of the same person hang on each iron shelf, some of which are human face paintings and some are real photos. It stands to reason that after decades, they should all be blurred, but don't know what methods the Chen family used, they are all clear as ever.

Lu Yingjiu raised his head and scanned countless images.

Jingxian said: "They are quite dedicated."

"Because the top-notch human skin mask is worn, even the closest people can't see it. With the Chen family's talisman and a slight change of body shape, it will be easier to hide from the sky." Lu Yingjiu said, "This kind of mask requires a very high level of precision. Before making it, the maker must spend weeks or even months to observe and imitate."

He pointed to one of the shelves.

On this shelf are the workers they just saw. There are portraits of him from all angles, front face, left face, right face... In the photo, he was pushing a cart on the construction site, he fell asleep tiredly on the subway, and he showed his face when he was eating with his family. With a smile, he was smoking a shoddy cigarette on the balcony late at night - the last two photos, obviously taken from a candid angle, look quite scary.

It's as if someone has been spying on your life and you are completely ignorant.

Lu Yingjiu continued: "Even the tiniest expression, a wrinkle at the corner of the eye, and the tilt of the mouth when laughing, all have to be recorded. Even if it is not to imitate others, but to draw a new face by oneself , and also need to refer to these real materials. Therefore, this group of people used to be often regarded as stalkers or voyeurs.”

By the light of the fire, he carefully walked through the entire mask workshop, browsed all the iron shelves and workbenches, and found nothing unusual.

until you reach the southeast corner.

He seemed to see something in the blink of an eye, but it wasn't very clear. Leaning over, there was nothing on the ground. He ignored the dirt on the ground and swept the dust with his hands—

The dust flew in the air, and a faint rune mark appeared on the ground out of thin air.

Someone came before them!

The man used a rune to clean up the traces left here.

His skills are very high, and if you change someone, you won't be able to see it at all. It's a pity that Lu Yingjiu came.

Lu Yingjiu squeezed a tactic, and the rune mark flickered a few times and shattered.

At the moment when it shattered, half a cigarette butt and several footprints appeared on the ground.

There was a thick layer of dust all around, and a thin layer of ash on the footprints and cigarette butts, from at least a month or two ago. Lu Yingjiu estimated the size of the shoe print. It was about 45-46 size shoes. There was only one type of shoe print, which should have been left by a man.

This slaughterhouse has been abandoned for so many years, how can anyone come back?

Is it also the same anchor as Yang Tianle?

If that's the case, that person didn't run into the sheep ghost, it's really an ancestor who burned a high incense.

Yang Tianle brought a group of faceless people and also squeezed over to see: "Are we still staying here?"

"Someone has been here before." Lu Yingjiu pointed at the cigarette butt.

Yang Tianle's already pale face turned even paler.

"He came a long time ago, but this place is really weird." Lu Yingjiu said.

Just then, footsteps suddenly came from behind them!

The footsteps were hurried, echoing in the empty space. That direction was the door of the workshop. Yang Tianle turned his head sharply and looked at the thick darkness behind him. He was frightened to death, and subconsciously wanted to lean on Lu Yingjiu, but he didn't know why he didn't lean on it.

Squeezing to the two of them, forcibly separated them, and did not let Yang Tianle go to Lu Yingjiu.

And when Lu Yingjiu waved his hand, the talisman paper flew out, and the firelight illuminated the face of the visitor.

It was sweaty, Little Li's face.

At his feet, the black hair balls spit his tongue and laughed at Lu Yingjiu. It was bringing Little Li.

Lu Yingjiu frowned slightly: "Didn't I tell you to not come in first?"

"Things and things are not good." Little Li panting, "I didn't want to come in, but, but that girl didn't know what, while I was drawing a rune paper outside, I rolled the window and ran in!"

Chen Yanyan ran in by himself?

Xiao Li added, "I was scared to death, so I came in to find her quickly. What do you think if something happened to a ghost? I couldn't find it no matter how much I looked for, but this is what you are." He looked down at him. The little black beast at his feet didn't know what to call for a while, "This little black came looking for me and brought me here. Brother Lu, what should we do now?"

At this time, he suddenly saw Yang Tianle next to him, and the faceless people standing in a row hand in hand.

He was slightly startled for a moment, with "Fuck" written all over his face.

Little Black Beast: "Ow!"

It rubbed against Lu Yingjiu's feet.

Lu yingjiu picked it up: "I go out to find her. Gong, you and Little Li they stay here, wait for me to come back."

Jingxian said, "I'm still with you..."

"It's not safe here," Lu Yingjiu said. "If you're not here, I can't find someone at ease."

Jingxian still wanted to speak, but was interrupted by Lu Yingjiu. He looked at Jingxian seriously, "I won't ask about your secrets, and I don't know why, but I believed in you from the very beginning. I won't doubt my intuition, so protect them, okay? "

He is so sincere.

Jing Xian looked at him silently. Lu Yingjiu only saw that the firelight fell in the man's deep black eyes, like some small light, burning in the abyss.

The two only looked at each other for a second or two, but Lu Yingjiu felt like a long time had passed.

Then Jingxian nodded and promised, "I won't let them have an accident. Be careful too."

Lu Yingjiu smiled: "Okay, I'm leaving."

Holding the little black beast, he walked neatly into the darkness.

At the door of the workshop, he turned his head and looked at Jingxian again across countless face paintings.

Jing Xian was standing against the wall, with a tall body, the lines of his long legs were vividly outlined by the firelight, and his eyebrows were so handsome—in other words, his eyes were on Lu Yingjiu from beginning to end, and he did not move. opened.

Seeing Lu Yingjiu turning back, Jing Xian smiled at him.

After leaving the workshop, the corridor was dark.

Lu Yingjiu still lit the talisman paper, letting the talisman paper hover around him, emitting a dim light, illuminating the long road ahead.

Most of the time he acts alone. One is due to his character, and the other is that he is strong enough. For so many years, he has long been accustomed to walking alone among the rampant ghosts.

At this time, behind him, where the light disappeared, silently walked through the black fog.

The hideous-looking priest followed him, with imprints resembling flowers branded on his body. They obeyed the ghost king's orders, turned into black mist, and followed Lu Yingjiu from a distance. In the fog, only fangs, red eyes and pale ghost hands, swords, spears, swords and halberds, axes and forks were vaguely seen. All kinds of gods and martial arts flashed icy light.

As long as any ghosts dare to approach, they will kill them.

At the fork in the road, Lu Yingjiu put the little black beast on the ground.

The little black beast smelled and smelled on the ground, and finally screamed and led him in one direction.

...

Little Li and Yang Tianle were shrinking in the corner of the work room. The three faceless people still held hands and sat up like elementary school students.

Jing Xian grabbed a chair and sat down.

He had no expression on his face, but Little li felt inexplicably that he was a bit unhappy.

Maybe you're worried about Brother Lu? He guessed so.

The atmosphere was tense and awkward.

The three of them didn't know each other, they really had nothing to say, and this was not a good time to chat.

Just after Little Li continued, when Brother Lu, a friend named "Xianxian", was sacred, and suddenly spoke: "You and Lu Yingjiu are familiar?"

"Am I?" Suddenly asked, Little li was a little nervous. "I, I, I have always knew Brother Lu.

Jingxian nodded and asked casually, "Did he tell you about his longevity lock?"

"Long life lock ..." Little Li recalled it.

Lu Yingjiu and him talked about it. At the house of ZHONG AIGUO, Lu Yingjiu told him that this was sent by his downturn. Later, when Ye Feng was drunk, he seemed to have mentioned a sentence or two for him, and he had been over.

Little li said, "Oh," I said. "

Jingxian asked, "What exactly did he...how did he say?" His tone contained a subtle anticipation.

Little li replied: "He said it was sent by his wife."

Jingxian: ?

"...Wife?" he hesitated.

"Yes," Little Li recalled what Ye FENG said, "You are his old friend, you should know this. Isn't it a good -looking fragrant female ghost? The ups and downs, it is called an excellent posture, maybe it is still virtuous. It will be a good wife and mother who can take care of Brother Lu ... How do you express this expression? "

Jing Xian's expression immediately froze.

"Hot body", "bulging front and back", "a good wife and good mother with outstanding demeanor" swirled in his ears, and for a while his expression was unpredictable, confused, dazed, hesitant and a little bit unbelievable, on that handsome face manifested incisively and vividly.

"Female ghost?!" He sat up straight, "He said the ghost marriage was a female ghost?!"

"Yes." Little Li didn't know why he was so excited, and carefully added, "Always, he can't marry a male ghost."

Jingxian: "..."

He took a huge hit.

He didn't have the slightest idea of ​​"Lu Yingjiu thought that he was married to a female ghost"... Thinking about it carefully, the thinking of normal people is indeed to marry the opposite sex. After so many years, he did not appear at all, of course Lu Yingjiu would think so!

Suddenly, there was a soft sound in the distance from the workshop.

Yang Tianle was immediately alert: "What kind of sound is that?"

Little Li also swallowed. Although he is also very nervous and persuasion, he is a ghost -driven teacher after all, and he still has to fight the courage to protect ordinary people. He pinched a few runes: "I, I'm going to see it." He looked at Gong Xian, "Then you, you, you keep staying here to accompany them."

Jingxian was still immersed in the blow, without any thought, and nodded slightly.

He already knew where the sound came from. Not a man or a ghost, but...

Two minutes later, Little Li ran back pale. He wrote that he wanted to scream in his face, and his professional literacy stiffly screamed back, and it seemed that the expression was distorted.

Yang Tianle: "Is there a ghost!"

"No no no," Little li said, "Yes, it is a big cockroach! There are cockroaches as big mice!"

Affected by the yin here, the cockroach was obviously mutated. One by one was larger than the mouse, the shell was greasy and shiny, and it was squeezed into a crowded. Little Li was the most afraid of insects in his life, and he scared him to climb back.

"It's good that it's not a ghost, it's good that it's not a ghost." Yang Tianle patted his chest, "No matter how big a cockroach is, it can't eat a human."

Little Li sat down again, panting, was shocked, and quickly took the rune paper left by Lu YingJiu to get closer: cockroaches should dare not approach the source of the fire.

As soon as he turned his head, he saw Jingxian still sitting on the chair, with a bit of melancholy on the side of his face in the firelight.

... It seems that he is still struggling with the "female ghost" thing.

Sure enough, after a few minutes, after the atmosphere fell silent again, Jingxian asked again, "Did he tell you anything else? About ghost marriage."

Little Li replied: "Nothing."

Gong just relaxed, and he heard Little Li added: "After all, things like underworld are illegal, and he doesn't mention much."

Jingxian: ? ? ?

Jing Xian's voice rose several times: "Is ghost marriage illegal?!"

How could he not know about this!

He is such a big living person... the big dead ghost is here! Why is it illegal to marry him? !

Little Li was startled by his reaction again: "No, right, that is, if you steal the body or the ashes to get married, it will be defined as" insulting the corpse ". I said wrong and I said wrong, Brother Lu That kind of certainty is definitely not illegal, but it is not legal. "

Jingxian sat up straight again: "In other words, his household registration book says 'unmarried'??"

"Yes, yes, isn't that of course?"

unmarried.

unmarried unmarried unmarried.

unmarried unmarried unmarried unmarried unmarried unmarried unmarried unmarried unmarried unmarried unmarried unmarried unmarried unmarried unmarried.

Jingxian suffered two blows in a short period of time, no less than five thunders from the sky, and his hands were shaking.

He and Lu Yingjiu got married, which the ghost world has admitted, which means that all ghosts know that he has been married for many years.

but,

why,

Is Lu Yingjiu still unmarried? ? ?

Is he...

Isn't he scumbag! !

This is definitely rubbish, right? !

Little Li met like a dead ash before meeting, and his eyes were almost lifeless, and he didn't know what happened at all.

Just as he was about to ask, he heard a "rustling" sound in the air.

He turned his head sharply and saw dozens of cockroaches the size of mice crawling towards them! Some even spread their wings and took off!

His scalp went numb for a while: "Ahhh! Ahhhh! Help me!"

No one responded.

As soon as Little Li turned around, the three faceless people did not respond at all -they certainly did not respond, yang tianle was more scared than him, and respectful ...

Jingxian, like Yang Tianle, sat directly in the corner and closed himself, his eyes were empty, as if he had been hit to death.

Little li is desperate for the soul of the sky.

...

Lu Yingjiu followed the little black beast all the way to the door of the women's locker room.

The door was open, and he gently pushed it open: "Why are you here?"

In the room, Chen Yanyan turned his head sharply, and his voice was crying: "I don't know either. I saw a flower in front of me, and when I realized it, the person was already here. Fortunately, you are here!"

Lu Yingjiu said, "It's fine, just come with me, everyone else is together."

Chen Yanyan got up immediately: "Yeah." She went up, took Lu Yingjiu's hand tightly, and followed him back to the corridor as if afraid.

She is very beautiful, and now in panic, she has a charming charm.

The two walked all the way. She bit her red lips lightly and asked softly, "What's the situation now? Is there a ghost here?"

"Yes, there are more than one ghosts who can rip people off." Lu Yingjiu said, "The way out has also been blocked. I will take you all to a safe place and find a way to deal with the ghosts."

"Oh..." Chen Yanyan's voice trembled, "Will the ghost that haunts me show up here?"

"Probably."

They just chatted with each other.

Approaching the basement, when turning the corner, Chen Yanyan suddenly let out a low cry, let go of Lu Yingjiu's hand, and bent down: "Wait for me, my shoelaces are loose!"

Before Lu Yingjiu turned around, she squatted down. She had just finished the operation and was weak and unable to breathe. She was wearing a thin coat and a pair of fashionable short boots. At this moment, with a move of her hand, she took out the thing attached to the inside of her forearm and quickly stuffed it into the boot on the right.

Then she tore off the loose shoelaces, and with one hand, tying the knot again with some difficulty.

"Okay." She said, and went up to hold Lu Yingjiu's hand tightly, showing a smile, "Thank you for waiting for me!"

"Yeah." Lu Yingjiu also smiled.

His smile was a little subtle, half-smiling, and his brows seemed to be ridiculed.

For a moment, Chen Yanyan was terrified, thinking that Lu Yingjiu could see through her small movements. But Lu Yingjiu didn't say anything more and continued to move forward.

Chen Yanyan breathed a sigh of relief and asked again, "Are those ghosts powerful? Will we be in danger?"

"Don't worry about your life." Lu Yingjiu said, "At least, you won't die before me."

His words were natural and candid, Chen Yanyan was stunned for a second or two, looked up at his profile, and his ears were slightly warm.

When she started walking to the basement, she heard Lu Yingjiu speak again: "And it's not just me, but also two other people. Although Xiao Li looks cowardly, he is still very brave at the critical moment, and he is also a qualified ghost exorcist. As for Jingxian..." He considered the words for a while, "It's also very powerful."

"That's good, that's good." Chen Yanyan said with a smile, "It's also two major forces!"

They walked past the workbench full of face paintings, Chen Yanyan couldn't help looking around, grabbing Lu Yingjiu's hand even harder.

They kept going towards the corner just now.

As a result, as soon as they walked over, they saw a pile of cockroach corpses on the ground, and three people were paralyzed in the corner.

YANG TIANLE is extremely frightened, Little Li's face is ashamed, and his eyes are empty.

All the negative emotions that human beings can have are vividly reflected in them.

Lu Yingjiu: "..."

The two battles he just mentioned collapsed immediately, and he didn't know what made them like this.

Especially Jingxian, he never thought that Jingxian would show such an expression.

——Obviously he didn't know that it was completely different things that broke the three of them.

He walked over, squatted in front of Jingxian, and patted his shoulder: "What's wrong with you?"

Jing Xian grabbed his hand, his eyes were filled with resentment, as if there were thousands of accusations in this one look.

"Scum," he said.

Lu Yingjiu: ???